The White House announced Ms. Bush’s engagement today to her longtime boyfriend, Henry Hager. Here’s the announcement from the Office of the First Lady:

President and Mrs. George W. Bush are happy to announce the engagement of their daughter, Jenna Bush, to Mr. Henry Hager, son of the Honorable and Mrs. John H. Hager of Richmond, Virginia. Miss Bush and Mr. Hager became engaged Wednesday, August 15, 2007.

No wedding date has been set.

A 2005 article in Richmond’s “Style Weekly” magazine includes some details about Ms. Bush’s fiance. One particularly interesting tidbit: Mr. Hager once worked as a White House aide for Karl Rove.

Mr. Hager is reportedly a student at the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business. He comes from a well-connected political family. His father, John, is the chairman of the Republican Party of Virginia. He previously served as an official in the federal Department of Education and as Virginia’s lieutenant governor.

Ms. Bush, 25, graduated from the University of Texas in 2004 with a degree in English. Since then, she has worked as a public school teacher in Washington, D.C. and as a volunteer for the United Nations Children’s Fund in South America.

This October Harper-Collins will publish a book she has written called “Ana’s Story: A Journey of Hope.” According to USA Today, the book is about a “17-year-old single mother in Panama who is living with H.I.V.” In an interview, Ms. Bush said the book is aimed at “getting kids thinking and involved.”

In the acknowledgments section of the book, Ms. Bush refers to “my patient Henry,” who she thanks, along with her family and friends, for “reading Ana’s Story and giving me your honest edits and suggestions.”

It’s nice to see that the NYT has time between reporting about Hillary Clinton’s outfits and Barack Obama’s mispronunciation of Pottawattamie to let us know that Jenna Bush is engaged. This is such an engaging, thought-provoking political story. I hope you guys ease off the boring, unimportant primaries and election and give us the good stuff, like who’s dating who in Washington.

Re Mr. Maggiano’s post: Yes, God bless the Bush family because no one else with any reasonable conscience or sense of morality can. It will take generations to repair the devastation that this administration has wrought on all of us — Left, Right and Center and all else in between.

Enough is more than enough with the Bush family. Just please, make them all fade away.

Call me what you may, but I can’t trust anyone under thirty named “Henry.” Even the younger of Prince Charles’s sons, officially named after Henry (he would be Henry the Ninth!!) has the good sense to go by “Harry.”

I remember those old-line Richmond families well from living there a few years; there’s a reason the Museum of the Confederacy still lives, and it’s families like the Hagers who keep it going…

So crude that someone’s blessing is tied to hatred. And maybe you should wake up because you are on some serious drugs if you think most of America loves (even ‘likes’ would be a stretch) the Bush family

What a ridiculous, absurd comment at No. 1 above. A ‘true’ American President would not deceitfully lead the country into an unprepared war of choice, killing and maiming thousands of Americans and foreigners.
I’ll ‘pass’ on the wedding invitation as well.

Their kids will surely be rocket scientists. I can’t wait for the book that she “wrote” to come out, they can put that photo of her sticking her tongue out at the press (when she was like 23) over the about the “author” section on the back.

Bob–Why on earth would you use Jenna’s engagement as an excuse to divide a nation that should be united in joy?

But since you brought it up: every single poll of American voters indicates overwhelming disapproval of Bush and his conduct of the war, etc. “Most of America” loves the Bush family–or President Bush—-I don’t think so.

That’s right…people who disagree with the current administration are not “true Americans”. No wait…it is people who blindly follow without question, and accuse anyone who does not do the same of being unpatriotic who are not true Americans!

It is so appropot. Wasn’t Nixon in the White House the last time there was a White House wedding? I imagine Jenna’s marriage will be as wonderful as…well, there will be roses and flowers. Just as there were to great our soldiers in Iraq. Bush is so much worse than Nixon.

The sad thing is that “most of America” just might be stupid enough to support this president. They certainly showed that in 2004 and in the lead up to the Iraq war which seemed just as deceitful and disasterous then as it does now. I fear that “most of America” will fall for the same old trick in 2008 and elect Giuliani, the “hero of 9/11.” What is wrong with this country?

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